Celebrating 25 Years Online 🎉
My Wii was making that blue glow again. Nintendo was doing something else to my little console. What could be going on inside the Wii today? I loaded up my system to find out. I was greeted by three new messages, all from Nintendo. What could be so important? It was a new system update.
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It’s not every day I get to see the pulsing blue light from my Wii. The slot indicator let me know that something was up. The novelty of Wiimail has worn off, so I knew it wasn’t a message from my Online Friends. What could Nintendo be up to? I turned on my Wii to find out. I had a new message from Nintendo. Here’s what it said…
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A blue light quietly pulsed from my Nintendo. The slot illumination function was operating as intended, as my Wii had something important to tell me. It was time for a system update. I wasn’t too surprised. I had heard the rumbling from the Internet. Word quickly spread that Nintendo released the News Channel a day early. A previous Nintendo press release mentioned that the News Channel would launch on January 27, 2007. More than two months after the launch of the Wii, today was the day to check out the News Channel. Here is the complete message from Nintendo, with line breaks included…
Subscriptions for Massively Multiplayer Online Games are on the rise. Estimates for 2005 put worldwide subscription sales at over a billion dollars. MMOG Analyst Bruce Sterling Woodcock says, “Different organizations have different estimates, but it’s somewhere in the $1-$2B range.”
It’s hard for me to talk about Halo without getting nostalgic. When I first saw Halo on the XBOX, I knew I had to buy it. Wow… 2001… that seems so long ago. The combat, the action, the graphics… it was the best I had ever experianced on a console system. Keep in mind, I’m a veteran of Bungie’s Marathon. It’s what Halo was before it was Halo. For two straight years I played that popular Macintosh shooter, but I only played Halo on the XBOX for about two weeks.